27 April 2022; MEMO: Qatar's military spending last year was 434% higher than in 2010, the last time such data was released by the Gulf state.
Last year military spending amounted to $11.6 billion, with 4.8 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) used on defence, making Qatar the fifth largest spender in the Middle East.
27 April 2022; MEMO: Israeli air strikes near Syria's capital, Damascus, have killed nine people, including five Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran's military presence in Syria were among the targets.
27 April 2022; MEMO: Turkiye is expanding the Russian payment system, 'MIR', and ensuring that Russian tourists to the country will not have obstructions to their transactions, as Russia and its citizens remain cut off from the global financial system and more expansive forms of payment.
27 April 2022; MEMO: Turkiye said no warship has passed through the Straits since the country restricted them through Turkish Straits, Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar, said Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports.
According to the report, Turkiye implemented the Montreux Convention to block warships due to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
"There has been no passage or a request for passage through the Straits until today," Akar said.
28 April 2022; MEMO: Algeria has completed work on a crude oil refining project in Hassi Messaoud, the largest oil city in the country, to pump 60,000 barrels per day. state-owned Sonatrach said today.
The statement stated that the CEO, Taoufik Hakkar, yesterday travelled to the southeastern city of Hassi Messaoud, and visited the project, which he said was now 99 per cent complete and able to process 60,000 barrels per day of crude oil.
28 April 2022; MEMO: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has received legal submissions accusing Israel of systematically targeting journalists working in Palestine and failing to properly investigate killings of media workers, which amount to war crimes.
28 April 2022; MEMO: Tunisia could be saved if President Kais Saied was impeached, and presidential and parliamentary elections were held, former President Moncef Marzouki said yesterday.
"Saied's impeachment, reopening dissolved institutions, arranging a transition phase based on the constitution, changing the electoral law, and holding presidential and legislative elections overseen by an independent commission, are the bailout recipe for Tunisia," Marzouki said on Facebook.
AMMAN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- King Abdullah II of Jordan on Wednesday met with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and stressed the need to work with the international community to restore calm in Jerusalem.
During a meeting in Amman with visiting Palestinian President, King Abdullah underscored the importance of stepping up efforts to prevent further violations against Islamic and Christian holy sites and the people of Jerusalem, according to a statement by the Royal Hashemite Court.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will to travel to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, his office announced, on the latest leg of Ankara’s bridge-building efforts with regional rivals.
It will be Erdogan’s first visit to the kingdom since Turkey dropped the trial of 26 Saudis suspected of involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Sirens blared across Israel early Thursday as the country came to a standstill in an annual ritual honoring the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
People halted where they were walking, and drivers stopped their cars to get out of the vehicles as people bowed their heads in memory of the victims of the Nazi genocide. Ceremonies were planned throughout the day at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, parliament and elsewhere.
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